[2] In 1919, she appeared as a dancer in the film Out of the fog,[14] and was featured on the cover of the December 1919 issue of Vogue magazine, photographed by Adolphe de Meyer.
She spent two years at the Cragmor Sanitarium in Colorado Springs to seek treatment, where she met Benjamin Strong, who was also suffering from tuberculosis.
Against the advice of doctors, she went back to New York to resume her dancing career, but suffered a hemorrhage during rehearsal for the Broadway play "Howdy, King".
She committed suicide on December 9, 1926, in her room at the Hotel Shelton, New York City, four days before the play's opening,[17] writing letters addressed to her mother, Mrs Rose Smoller, and to Benjamin Strong.
[19][20] A New York newspaper speculated[19] that another factor contributing to her suicide was her "failure to get work in the films .. Miss Smoller had a screen test at the Famous Players studio .. and .. was informed she "would be considered".